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Browsing Theses & Dissertations by Thesis (Discipline) "Women's Studies Program"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2007)This study examines the experiences of seven individual women who have been key players in municipal government in Nova Scotia. Through in-depth, one-on-one interviews I investigated women's participation in voluntary ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Mount Saint Vincent University, Dalhousie University, Saint Mary's University, 2001)This thesis, entitled Bodily Insights From the Crone Woman: Perceptions of Health & Beauty examines body image as reported by elderly women across their lifespan from a feminist perspective in the year 2001. The author, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Mount Saint Vincent University, Dalhousie University, Saint Mary's University, 2001)The present conjuncture in which Sudanese women's changing consciousness about their status is unfolding contrasts markedly with the decline in their confidence in the organised women's movement. The author's personal ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University : Mount Saint Vincent University, 2007)This thesis examines the social construction, development, and identity of the lesbian caregiver and her experiences, as well as the impact of sexual orientation on the role of being a caregiver within mainstream society ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Dalhousie University : Mount Saint Vincent University : Saint Mary's University, 2005)In analyzing four specific cases of femicide covered in Canadian national newspapers through a feminist poststructuralist framework, this thesis demonstrates that femicide cases are regularly explained as isolated acts of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University : Mount Saint Vincent University, 2006)Most theories designed to appraise literary works by Africans and people of African descent have acknowledged the major influence of orature, but the concept (or conceptualisation) of orature in these works, mainly by men, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Dalhousie University, Saint Mary's University, Mount Saint Vincent University, 2003)The purpose of this thesis is two-fold. First, it provides a feminist critique of neoclassical economics and the neo-liberal agenda with regard to trade liberalization policies and questions why a feminist agenda needs to ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2008)This thesis uses a feminist perspective to analyse the local and global conditions that affect Iraqi women's lives and the history of women's movements. It investigates the mechanisms that overshadow, subordinate and ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Mount Saint Vincent University : Dalhousie University : Saint Mary's University, 2005)This study examines, from a feminist perspective, workplace restructuring and the resulting changes to clerical work that affect women workers in the form of job stress. Five clerical workers were interviewed using a ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University : Mount Saint Vincent University, 2006)This thesis utilizes an integrative analysis of gender, race and class to understand and explain the labour market integration experiences of women from sub-Saharan Africa in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The research moves from ...
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Maidens, mothers and rabble rousers : women's political involvement in Northern Ireland, 1790-2001 (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, Mount Saint Vincent University, Dalhousie University, 2001)Historically, women's political participation in Northern Ireland has long been neglected, giving the impression that women in Northern Ireland are agentless "victims" of history, and politically irrelevant to Northern ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Mount Saint Vincent University, Saint Mary's University, 2004)This thesis finds that women's participation in politics is extremely limited in Bangladesh despite the unique experience of having a woman prime minister and a woman opposition leader. How did Bangladesh get these two ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, Dalhousie University, Mount Saint Vincent University, 2001)The social construction of familial relationships in Western society tends to value the genetic relationship between parents and children. This belief has been central in assigning normative status to the genetically related ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Mount Saint Vincent University, Dalhousie University, Saint Mary's University, 2004)This thesis explores the situation of sex workers in Bangladesh through a feminist holistic analysis, and using a feminist methodology, it traces the status change of sex workers from the pre-colonial era to the present ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1998)Cultural and sexual hybrids have been overlooked due to the reinforcing and simplifying ideologies of normative and binary thinking. This neglect has led to the marginalization and indivisibility of multiracial, multiethnic, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Mount Saint Vincent University, Dalhousie University, Saint Mary's University, 1998)"Surveilled Women: Subjectivity, The Body and Modern Panopticism" explores the ways in which surveillance enacts the power to limit the self definition and thus the subjectivity of the female subject. Understanding the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Mount Saint Vincent University : Dalhousie University : Saint Mary's University, 2001)This study explores how the notion of power in feminist concepts is reflected through the female protagonists of two novels, The Edible Woman and Karmila . The former is a Canadian novel written by Margaret Atwood, and the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Mount Saint Vincent University, Dalhousie University, Saint Mary's University, 2002)Within the context of the Nova Scotia women's movement of the 1980s, this thesis examines the relationship between Lesbian and heterosexual women, the processes of Lesbian invisibility, and the paradox of Lesbian visibility ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Mount Saint Vincent University, Dalhousie University, Saint Mary's University, 2002)This research titled "Where Do Girls Stand In The Bureaucratic Maze? A Case Study Of The Collaborative Relationships Between Girl Children, NGOs and Government In West Bengal, India" is meant to find out how the situation ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1997)
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